God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.